Line #23 WesternAnimation/TheLittlePandaFighter


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3	''Ursinho da Pesada'', known in English as ''The Little Panda Fighter'', is a 2008 Brazilian DirectToVideo film by Creator/VideoBrinquedo that is, to say the least, "[[TheMockbuster inspired]]" by ''Franchise/KungFuPanda''. A panda named Pancada works at a boxing club, but dreams of becoming a professional dancer. His boss, hoping to get back in the ring, fights a bear named Teddy Thunders, but due to an incident with the washing machine, everyone thinks he's Pancada. Now, Pancada is forced to fight in the ring for a battle that could determine the fate of the business.
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5	See also ''WesternAnimation/ChopKickPanda'', another ''Kung Fu Panda'' knockoff.
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7	!!This film provides examples of:
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9	* AlliterativeName:
10	** The '''B'''ig '''B'''ar '''B'''ox.
11	** '''T'''eddy '''T'''hunders.
12	* AllForNothing: Pancada trains hard to prepare for his match against Freak Teddy, actually fighting for real this time after everyone believes confuses Polaris for Pancada when Freak Teddy is defeated by the former. Despite his training and confidence, Pancada embarrassingly loses the fight against Teddy pretty hard.
13	* AnywhereButTheirLips: When everyone thinks Pancada defeated Freak Teddy, Honey kisses Pancada the following day down the eyeball.
14	* TheBadGuyWins: Teddy Thunders wins against Pancada in the climatic fight, reigniting his place as the champion of the Bear Bar Box. Meanwhile, despite his arrogance throughout the whole movie, Polaris gets away with his treachery in the ending, betting on Pancada losing against Teddy and earning him a retirement and vacation at the icy mountains.
15	* BatmanGambit: At the end of the movie, Polaris bets all of his money on Pancada losing to Teddy Thunders, and is able to hand the Bear Bar Box over to Pancada, who turns it into a dance club, while Polaris retires to the icy mountains.
16	* ClarkKenting: Taken [[ExaggeratedTrope up to eleven]]. Polaris the polar bear manages to hide his identity by putting on a leotard and a bandit mask while fighting the current boxing champion Teddy Thunders, and when his disguise shrinks instead of being exposed everyone thinks he's Pancada the panda, even though they look completely different.
17	* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: When Polaris' leotard and mask shrink in the wash on a night when Pancada happens to not be working (since he was attending a dance audition), the audience mistakenly believes he ''is'' Pancada.
18	* ConMan: Polaris gets away with secretly betting on Pancada and becoming wealthy at the end of the film.
19	* CoversAlwaysLie: The artwork on the cover looks much better than the film's actual animation. Plus, the scene showchased does not appear in the actual movie.
20	* CurbStompBattle: Pancada never had much of a chance against Teddy Thunders. While he does do some considerably effective, albeit comical, hits against Teddy, Pancada is for most of the battle badly beaten up.
21	* DreamSequence: A brief one in the beginning with Pancada imagining himself as a dancer while working on mopping the floor.
22	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Averted. There are no kung-fu-fights, but boxing. And Pancada isn't very good at boxing, because he wants to be a dancer. The cover lies, as mentioned above, to get the attention of ''Franchise/KungFuPanda''-fans.
23	* FightingPanda: Averted as well for the same reason above. Pandaca is a boxer who would rather be a dancer, and the movie pretty much has nothing to do with kung-fu.
24	* KarmaHoudini: Polaris pretty much tricks everyone into giving him their money, and gets away with it.
25	* LaughingMad: After seeing how Pancada doesn't understand the misunderstanding going on and thinks everyone has been congratulating him for his dance audition, Polaris laughs for nearly twenty whole seconds.
26	* LimitedAnimation: In one scene, Beth says that the boxing club is sold out, but no customer can be seen.
27	* MistakenForBadass: The plot revolves around everyone thinking Pancada defeated Freak Teddy in a match, and everyone constantly congratulates him for his supposed feat. In reality, it was Polaris who fought Teddy in a disguise that made him look like a panda, hence everyone's confusion.
28	* TheMockbuster: A pretty flagrant rip-off of ''Franchise/KungFuPanda''.
29	* NeverTrustATitle: The titular panda is not "little", as he is one of the largest characters in the movie. Plus, he only fights for thirty seconds at the end of the movie, and he gets his ass kicked.
30	* NonActionGuy: Pancada would prefer to dance rather than fight.
31	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: A bunch of people come up to Pancada and commend him on what they thought were his fighting skills and he thinks they're talking about his dancing audition, even though they were clearly not there watching. This is soon followed by another one between Pancada and Polaris, which is even more poorly constructed.
32	* OverlyLongGag: Polaris laughs at Pancada for his misunderstanding for nearly twenty whole seconds.
33	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Honey serves no purpose in the story aside from being Pancada's LoveInterest.
34	* ShoutOut:
35	** One of the opponents is clearly an evil version of [[Franchise/CareBears Tender Heart]].
36	** One of the posters in Polaris' office is seemingly styled as a parody of the ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' poster, except with Polaris instead of the titular character.
37	* StockFootage: A small shot of Master Xin turning music on is used twice throughout the movie.
38	* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Finally fighting for real, Pancada embarrassingly loses the climatic match against Freak Teddy. However the next day, it turns out that Polaris bet that Pancada would lose, turning him wealthy and earning him a retirement and vacation. Though Polaris gets away with his treachery in the end, on a plus side for the protagonist, Pancada now has the Bear Bar Box's property to himself, deciding to turn it into a dance club to his liking, finally fulfilling his dream of being a dancer.

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